It's hard to believe that the Dems looked up to and gave a prominent role to such an obvious liar and fraud. How dense, or how poor a judge of character, do you have to be to not have your sleazeball alarm go off whenever Weiner speaks?

From the linked article: After one of the games, Mr. Weiner had a black eye because he had collided with another player in the outfield. Mr. Weiner bragged about the episode so much that his staff members were left rolling their eyes for days afterward, with one wryly suggesting that he wanted to give Mr. Weiner another black eye.

He collided with his team mate in the outfield. That just about sums up Mr. Weiner.

He will never resign - which isn't a bad thing if you are a Republican.

I think what Weiner and King are debating here is the House vote for the aid for 9/11 responders.

The Democrats used procedure to make this a vote that would require a 2/3 majority, instead of a simple majority, so that Rs couldn't propose amendments like preventing the aid from going to illegal immigrants.

So the bill was narrowly defeated, and it would have passed easily, if only a simple majority was required, and if these innocuous amendments had been allowed; and the Dems blamed the Republicans afterward. (Which is all the Ds wanted here -- they don't give a damn about illegal immigrants, they wanted a club to use against Republicans.) But King couldn't make this point, because Weiner, as is his wont, filibustered him.

Not a big fan of King - read someplace that he was a big supporter of the IRA back in the '80s, but The Weiner is a typical nephew of Uncle Saul - any lie will do, shout down the other guy, etc.

He has no friends on the other side of the aisle, even among the RINOs, and the Demos, while they never call on one of their own to resign, really understand the need to get rid of him.

The Demos think they can spin Republican spending cuts as a war on women, but, if Tony is on display as the poster boy for the way the Demos have really treated women the last 40 years, they're going to have a message problem.

And, notice, the Republicans aren't all that loud in demanding he resign. Right now, The Weiner is the face of the Democrat Party.

Wild Weiner is very smart, but he does not wait for a teachable moment to use his smarts to win friends for his political position. He just intimidates the hell out of everybody and claims a victory by being the loudest and rudest man in the room. He never gets around to winning over the others...he just smashing them verbally in public. Now what could possibly go wrong for a man like that?

"He[...]claims a victory by being the loudest and rudest man in the room. He never gets around to winning over the others...he just smashing them verbally in public. Now what could possibly go wrong for a man like that?"

Step back a minute. The seat Weiner now fills once belonged to Charles Schumer. Who went up against "Senator Pot Hole." (D'Mato). Who was the republican in the senate, from NY. And, who sat alongside the other senator from NY, Patrick Moinihan. Moinihan was known as an intellectual's intellectual. And, he didn't pay much attention to constituents.

On the other hand, D'Mato, also known as Senator Pot Hole, was the "go to" office for anyone with a political problem. And, he'd fix this! So,you'd think when D'Mato was running for another term, he'd be a shoo-in. Charles Schumer got in. And, it was so bad, that D'Mato's tears couldn't be stopped. And, he couldn't give his concession speech.

This is when (back in 1998, I think), that Weiner (a protoge of Schumer's) stepped into the ring. And, won the 2 year seat in the House of Representatives.

You know, in an odd side show "event," Leona Helmsley's dog, "Trouble" ... just died.

You'd figure with all the money in the world for care ... a small dog would live longer than 12 years.

While for all those who gawk at traffic accidents, Weiner's in the crash. I don't even hear the sirens that the rescue folk are on their way!

Yes. Weiner held on in 2010. When a lot of his colleagues bit the dust. Perhaps, he's counting on being in a very safe district?

I'm a liberal guy, too cool for the macho acheWith a secret tooth for the cherry on the cakeWith a pious smile, a smile that changes what I sayWhile I waste my time in regrettingThat the days went from perfect to just okay

Garage...Has Sarah inserted computer chips into Liberal's minds that makes them knee jerk publicize every thing she ever says, all in a false hope of ridiculing her? She has become a Bin Laden like nemesis to liberals. You Liberals have even set the stage for her two hour movie on nothing but Palin being wrongfully attacked by liberals and RINOs. If she wins the 2012 election, I will blame you.

Being a laid back denizen of a Rocky Moutnain State who went to college in the midwest, can someone explain why people in the northeast tend toward the brash obnoxious and loud? Don't they ever step back and think, I'm coming across as a total a**hole in my demeanor and how I relate to other human beings?

That sanctimonious bit was the part of the video that annoyed me the most. If any of these screeching-heads shows really wanted to provide their viewers with useful information in complicated cases like the 911 bill, they would employ reporters with sufficient intelligence, education, and disinterest to report the basic facts. Instead, they set up cockfights between whichever two politicos have the greatest reasons to shout at each other.

Hemmer and the rest of them--on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, et al.-- ought to check out the approval rating of his own industry before tsk-tsking about Congress. Then he should STFU rather than express his shock!shock! that there's ranting on his TV show.

On Thursday's Hardball, Chris Matthews determined that Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner could be in danger of being forced out of Congress by Blue Dog Dems who face uphill battles in red states because, as he put it, "people in the rural areas of this country who are Christian conservative culturally - you can say backward if you want...don't like this kind of stuff."

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At this point, we're getting to the "how young" portion of the culture wars.

That's easy: Pre-scandal I'd rather have Weiner. Now I'd rather have King. Both are kinda typical NY pols in that they came up through the ranks in the gladiatorial form political winnowing that NY politics has evolved.

The last man standing from the primaries tries to outshine, out-smart, out-talk and out-hustle the other guy. Dirty tricks, smears, lies and such are not only allowed but are encouraged. Like with many NCAA football and basketball coaches the idea is to win first and explain later. If you have to.

Watching half the clip, I hate Weiner's style. Whining, although he accuses the other of that, blaming other, etc. He's only interested in winning the argument at the moment, no thought to working with someone else.

He's the kind of guy I'd work against just to piss him off and take him down. I wouldn't want him representing me or even on my side.

Weiner could not make a living outside the political gravy train. The first time he spoke that way to a man trained in fighting, he would end up in the ER in need of a dental surgeon, a plastic surgeon and an orthopedic surgeon. Sometimes even Christian men forget to forgive quick enough.

Incidentally, I had an hour-long conversation yesterday with a deaf woman who responded precisely to everything I said. Nothing was repeated, nothing was stepped on, nothing was ignored, nothing contradicted. The back-and-forth exchange was perfectly delightful and clear. The contrast between her and himself is remarkable.

I don't care what happens to him. Go, stay, I don't care.

You know what else? One last thing. All this I read about shaved chest. I never caught that. My chest is bare as that. My dear ol' dad, bless 'im, used to insist I have sips of his blended whiskeys. Ghastliest shit ever invented. Turpentine's own cousin. He never failed to laud it as the very thing that would put hair on my chest. Well, I had those sips and nothing happened. LIES !!11¡1uno!!

Gsrage. Yhe media is certainly more interested in bringing down Palin than bringing down the Weiner. Perhaps they will uncover some misspellings or subject/verb disagreements which,of course,would be much worse than sending lewd pictures to college girls. Yes, Garage, Palin sent and received emails.

Well unlike a lot of professional pols (of both parties) I could name, Weiner's relative penury is proof that what ever other faults he may have cronyism, quid pro quo, golden handshakes weren't his thing. Say what else you want about him but he's pure as the driven snow in terms of not lining his own pockets. Just sayin'. Unlike Clinton, Rangel, Dodd, and many many others.

@MichaelWrong. The media stayed stuck on him from the first accusations and never relented. And as has been pointed out elsewhere on this blog Weiner pushed back EXTREMELY hard but to no avail. The media will crucify who they can. And yes I know some get away with it.

Weiner looks like the kind of guy who is more adept at winning arguments than winning fights. In fact, his style of winning arguments probably inspires fights....The exchange between him and King shows why he is a cooked goose. His performance with King was virtually indistinguishable from his overbearing ways in the Karl interview where he lied about everything. When you lie that often and that aggressively, it is difficult to re-establish credibility.....Rahm Emanuel's brother is a big time Hollywood agent. If you think Weiner with his overbearing personality and facility for whoppers will have difficulty making a living, you are touchingly naive about American life.

'More often than not, as members of the New York delegation waited for a vote, or a meeting, most would make small talk or huddle. But not Mr. Weiner, who usually kept to himself, and was busy either talking to his staff or, more recently, using his BlackBerry.'

Looking at the other thread it appears that Weiner has no choice but to stay in office. He does not have the skills, any skills, to feed himself otherwise. Surely we can do better as a nation than to hire people like this to represent us.